One crystal phase displacing another does occur in other media, though: http://www.pnas.org/content/100/5/2180.long On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 6:43 PM, Eugene Salamin via math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" is out of date with our current understanding of water. Ice IX exists, and is quite harmless, and we now go up to ice XVII.
http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_phase_diagram.html
http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_structure_science.html
-- Gene
On Friday, March 9, 2018, 6:24:56 PM PST, Hilarie Orman <ho@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
Another global disaster looms as we approach Vonnegut crystalization boundary:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1136
Hilarie
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